Monday, December 29, 2014

A Styled Version Of The Rain Table For Modesto

I've been kind of embarrassed by the rough nature of the rainfall tables I've posted here as a part of my rainfall database project, so I spent a little time making the thing more attractive.

MODESTO Percent of Normal Rainfall

Date

2014

2013

21-Dec-14

218

42

22-Dec-14

213

41

23-Dec-14

209

40

24-Dec-14

204

40

25-Dec-14

200

39

26-Dec-14

197

38

27-Dec-14

193

37

28-Dec-14

190

37

Speaking of rain, I checked out the forecast for California for the upcoming week, and it doesn't look so good. Dry weather as far as the eye can see for most of the state. That 2014 percent of normal number is going to keep falling.

2 comments:

Since I'm not at all familiar with the normal amount of rainfall in Modesto in December, just how wet (or dry) are we talking about here? Is this a case of normally getting, say, 12 inches per month and having it jump up to 24 (which would be quite a soaking), or is it more like a quarter of an inch increasing to half an inch (which might not even be all that noticeable without careful data collection)?

(if we got a 200% increase in precipitation in Houghton, it would be quite a disaster between the flooding and the buildings collapsing from the snow load)

Modesto has received 7.7 inches since July 1st of this year. An inch of rain would be about 30 percent of normal for year to date. I don't know why the rain year starts on July 1st. Some agricultural reason, perhaps?